Oh, you know it. I was tempted to ask “You mean, absent dads? Crappy dadding?” But I wasn’t going to get into “But - but - Mom ...”

Something tells me, too, that “crappy parenting” generally falls more on the mother’s shoulders than the father’s. Just another way to blame women.

Men aren’t the only ones raised with crappy parents.

And the ridiculous thing is that they think that a girl being nice to him would solve all his problems. If a girl is nice to him, he’ll have rage because she declined to date him. If she dates him, he’ll have rage because he’s jealous of other men. If she dates him and devotes all of her life to him so he has nothing…

Plus, I’m not getting laid at the moment and you don’t see me—or any other woman ever—blaming all men and committing mass shooting. Men really need to start asking themselves why so many of them think this way.

That was the “incel cry” en masse after Elliot Roger.

“Incel” is such an whimpering term. Many of us are not getting laid, complaining about and blaming all women isn’t the way to deal with it. It’s such a cop out for guys that refuse to see or admit that they have personality flaws that make them unattractive but still haul around a massive bag full of entitlement.

I hate the gendering of emotions so so much. It doesn’t help that socializing men to bottle up their emotions also makes so many men reluctant to seek out help from mental health professionals. I know a lot of guys with emotional issues who would get a world of good from seeing a therapist, but there is such a stigma…

It’s somewhat astonishing to me to compare how women are taught to function with insecurity versus how men typically do so. American women have been socialized for generations to feel insecure, particularly about their appearance and desirability. Typically that energy is turned into self-hatred, or aimed at other…

I agree and think its correlated and exaggerated by a cultural element. What I know as toxic masculinity definitely plays into the sense of entitlement, power and privilege men like this exhibit when they go on mass murders.

It’s like they want and expect women to be there willing and eager to bang them anytime, anywhere, any way that they want, basically, their own personal, opinion-less and voiceless fuck dolls that they can treat as less than human, while simultaneously throwing a fit and shouting that any woman who dares have sex with…

Yes, but the menz are entitled to a woman. We shouldn’t expect to ever have a man, and if we do, we are so incredibly lucky one of them picked us! So if a man doesn’t get what he’s been expecting all his life, well of course he’s going to get angry/sullen and not hold his emotions!

Totally. I’m like, like I *haven’t* cried my eyes out over some asshole before? Like I haven’t been seriously depressed because someone I liked didn’t like me back? Who the fuck hasn’t experienced that.

I would say describing that movement as self-righteous might be a little much. I think it’s perfectly reasonable not to publish photos and the name of the shooter, while still being able to discuss the underlying motivations. I think their sense of entitlement spurs their rage and frustration and the notoriety is…

All I can think of is the Louis CK bit about how the #1 killer of women isn’t anything like cancer or heart disease—it’s men.

And conservatives will continue to say that the problem is mental illness and then do absolutely jack shit about dealing with mental illness other than mass incarceration.

But of course, these writings will be immediately dismissed and everything will go back to the status quo.

Harper-Mercer complained in the writings about not having a girlfriend, and he seemed to feel like he was very rational while others around him were not, the official said.

One aspect of this that really pisses me off (bros being irrationally pissed off that girls don’t want to date them, that is) is that they completely fail to acknowledge that girls and women experience THAT SAME EXACT SHIT. I mean I guess to them, we aren’t fully human, so maybe that explains it.